"The Cool, Cool River" (Paul Simon cover)

Norwegian singer/songwriter Jenny Hval's Innocence Is Kinky is one of the more intriguing (and Overlooked) releases of 2013, a complicated album that's full of ideas as much as it is willing to challenge listeners' conventions-- so it's not surprising that her cover of Paul Simon's "The Cool, Cool River", a cut from Simon's 1990 LP The Rhythm of the Saints, jettisons the original's disjointed shuffle and turns the already-slightly-uneasy tune into something more skeletal and unnerving. Hval heads out on her first North American tour next week; head here to read our Rising interview with her.